Hacking with APL
Thanks to our dear friend Dr. Ray Polivka, Dan Baronet and I had the opportunity to travel to Vassar College to participate in their Community Hackathon held on 5-6 February 2016. “What’s a hackathon?” you ask? Well, we did too, as we’d never participated in one before. 🙂 According to the Hackathon’s announcement: “CommunityHack is a way to […]
FinnAPL Meeting in Helsinki, November 26th 2015
Hyvää päivää (good day) On the last Thursday of November, I had the privilege to meet with with some members of the Finnish APL community in at the Vatt Institute for Economic Research in downtown Helsinki. The morning was spent engaged in lively conversation about user interfaces and Dyalog APL. In particular we talked about MiServer – […]
SWEDAPL Meeting in Malmö, November 11th 2015
The November cycle of APL User Meetings is kicking off; the SWEDAPL meeting in Malmö was first this year, holding a meeting at the top of the famous Turning Torso in Malmö. Since it was just a short trip from our Danish office, Dyalog was represented by Gitte Christensen, Bjørn Christensen and Morten Kromberg – […]
Dyalog ’15 – An Unexpected Viking Challenge
After many months of planning and preparation it was finally time to head from the UK to Sicily for Dyalog ’15. Sun, sea and an excellent conference facility were awaiting us at the Atahotel Naxos Beach in Giardini Naxos and this year, because it would be very hot, we had decided to forgo the traditional […]
Tuesday at Dyalog ’15
MiServer UI Controls Dan Baronet and Adám Brudzewsky continued yesterday’s presentation by Morten Kromberg on Cross-platform User Interfaces by demonstrating a lot of varied interface elements that are available when creating front-ends in MiServer. Especially encouraging were the special controls designed by Dyalog. These make it possible to have arrays render as complete super-elements (e.g. a table). No need to worry about the many underlying HTML […]
TamStat, a Statistical Package
Blog post from presentation by Stephen M Mansour PhD, The Carlisle Group as well as the University of Scranton, and Jerry Brennan PhD, A former teacher of Statistics in Hawaii, who has now moved being a fulltime Psycologist. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Last year I managed to squeeze in a mention of TamStat in a blog […]
Using Co-dfns to Accelerate APL Code
Blog post from Aaron Hsu’s (Indiana University, USA) presentation Wednesday 9th September. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 For the past 2-3 years Aaron and Dyalog have been collaborating on creating a new compiler. This is an Open Source project and the compiler – which is currently in ‘Version 0.5’, is available as a zip download from […]
How I won the Dyalog Programming Contest
Blog post from Arianna Locatelli’s presentation on how she won the Dyalog APL programming contest 2015. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 Introduction Now it it’s 7th year, the annual Dyalog APL Programming Contest continues to attract a lot of interest. One of our favourite sessions at the Annual User Meeting, is when we get the opportunity to meet the […]
Highlights from User Presentation at Dyalog ’15 Tuesday 8th September
We have been spoilt with a large number of User presentations today, and although I have focused on writing more indepth about How to Save an Italian School with APL in a separate blog, I find it important to also give our blog readers a glimpse of what we also saw and heard today. By Vibeke Ulmann #Dyalog15 We […]
Monday at Dyalog ‘15
There is so much going on at Dyalog ’15. The general theme of the day was set with Morten Kromberg’s Technical Road Map. Dyalog is constantly refining and expanding APL’s capabilities and ease of use, quickly adding functionality to tie into new technologies, and adapting to emerging trends. Here are some highlights from the day: […]
